Creation and the function of art : techné, poiesis, and the problem of aesthetics /: techné, poiesis, and the problem of aesthetics. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jason Tuckwell.
• Authors: Tuckwell, Jason
• Contents: ""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Series""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction Re-Problematizing the Greek Topos""; ""1 Functions and Models: Art and Knowledge ""; ""1.1 Functions and problems""; ""1.1.1 The general form of problems""; ""1.1.2 The function of Platonism and the resolution of philosophical models""; ""1.2 Mathematical functions""; ""1.2.1 The function is a different kind of problem""; ""1.2.2 Pure mathematics and monstrous functions""; ""1.2.3 The aestheticism of the doxa: Mathematics and elegance"" ""1.2.4 Liberation of the function""""1.2.5 Mathematical and natural functions""; ""1.2.6 Functions in the creation of models""; ""1.3 Functions in art""; ""1.3.1 The contention that a creative principle is necessary for art has not been exhausted""; ""1.3.2 The function is occulted by the division between theory and practice""; ""1.3.3 The conflation of function and purpose in art history""; ""1.4 The inaugural Greek topos: Art, creation and nature""; ""1.4.1 Aristotle and the apprehension of the topos""; ""1.4.2 The critical role of telos in poiesis and praxis"" ""1.4.3 Actions cannot be imitated""""1.5 Meaning and creation""; ""1.5.1 Structural sense-making and the problem of creation""; ""1.5.2 Creation and originality""; ""1.5.3 Creation and temporality""; ""1.6 The overwhelming excess of insuperable indigence""; ""2 The Re-Problematization of Techne: Subjects and Praxis ""; ""2.1 Techne I: Immanence, praxis and intelligibility""; ""2.1.1 Epistemological resolutions and practical methods in philosophy""; ""2.1.2 Descartes and the function of doubt""; ""2.2 Techne II: Functional properties"" ""2.2.1 Techne governs transformations from bodies to ideas and from ideas to bodies""""2.2.2 Techne in the living body""; ""2.2.3 Techne has two directions available to it""; ""2.3 Techne and the function of subjectivity""; ""2.3.1 The problem of techne is recorded in the etymology of the term â#x80;#x98;subjectâ#x80;#x99;""; ""2.3.2 The functional approach to the subjective problem""; ""2.4 Freud, Lacan and the re-orientation of episteme""; ""2.4.1 Freud establishes that subjects are functional problems"" ""2.4.2 Freud contra Aristotle: Techne is not a rational faculty but operates independently in living bodies""""2.4.3 Techne carries into episteme functional processes acquired in living bodies""; ""2.4.4 The nature of subjectivity is not determined by the primary process (at subâ#x80;#x93;) but by techne (at â#x80;#x93;jet)""; ""2.5 Techne and the agency of art""; ""2.5.1 The subjective obstruction for the problem of art""; ""2.5.2 Techne and the work of art""; ""2.5.3 Recapitulation of the functional problem""; ""3 Deviant Techne: Phusis and â#x80;#x93;jet ""; ""3.1 Techne and technology: Agency and artifice"" ""3.1.1 The â#x80;#x98;otherâ#x80;#x99; problem of techne""
• Publisher Details: London, UK New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 231 pages)
• Subjects: 111/.85; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Techne (Philosophy); Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy; Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Techne (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics; Philosophy; Philosophy -- Aesthetics; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical; Philosophy -- General; Philosophy: aesthetics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350010789; 1350010782; 9781350010772; 1350010774
• Related ISBNs: 9781350010765
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 12, 2017).
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